Sheffield Wednesday 'extremely confident' for play-off second leg despite Sunderland defeat

Sheffield Wednesday’s Jordan Storey says his side will head into the second leg of the play-off semi-final on Monday feeling “extremely confident”.

Sunderland beat Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 last night in the League One play-off semi-final first leg at the Stadium of Light in front of 44,742 fans. The winning goal came from Ross Stewart.

Now the Black Cats have to visit Hillsborough on Monday night for the second leg with only a narrow lead. The winner will face either Wycombe or MK Dons at Wembley in the final.

Speaking after the match, Wednesday’s 24-year-old defender Storey told his club’s website: “We’re disappointed to come away with a defeat but on the other side it’s only 1-0. So it’s all to play for at our place and with our home record I think we’ll be confident going into it.

“Our home form speaks for itself. With 34,000 Sheffield Wednesday fans it will just give us an extra boost, it will be like a 12th man. We’ll be extremely confident going into it and we’ll be looking to get the win.”

Speaking about the first leg, he said: “Obviously they had 42,000 here to cheer them on. It doesn’t faze us really. I think we all blocked it out well, but yeah I think at 1-0 there’s a few positives to take out of it. I know obviously it’s a defeat but I just think we started the game too slow really and then we did eventually get back into it.”